ed to all this by the lovely, well-connected wife of a dying Wall Street tycoon? Or is Chauncey Gardiner riding the waves all by himself because, like a TV image, he floated into the world buoyed up by a force he did not see and could not name? Does he know something we don't? Will he fail? Will he ever be unhappy? Chance is a character dependent on luck.Being There is one of those rare books, which echoes in the mind long after you have finished it. It will survive as a seminal work of the Seventies." (New York Post) Chance is a man without an intellect. He cant even follow a full sentence. Still, Chance is one of the top people of the country and everyone loves him. No one knows who Chance is or where he came from. All types of spy organizations try to figure out who he is but arent successful. Chance is luck. Everything that comes out of his mouth is garbage and its only luck that his words were mistaken for wisdom. Its luck that his name was heard and he ran into a beautiful rich woman whose husband was dying. The only reason Chance becomes someone great is because this says something about those who we look up to in America. Maybe our celebrities and political leaders are no more than a bunch of idiots who by chance have been hit by a lucky car and are suddenly famous. This is what Kosinski is trying to tell his readers. James Park Sloan, author of Jerzy Kosinski wrote that In the novel Being There, Kosinski created a nonexistent character name Chance. Through Chance Kosinski satirized the people of the high class, the power elite. The categories of people that Kosinski puts down are the people of male and female gender that are of some prominence. He puts down the general high-class people, the diplomats, the industrialists, and most importantly the president.(JK; 218) Chance is a person whom Kosinski created that has no background. He is mentally disabled. How, you might ask, was it that Chance became someone of ...
